Anne Mocko

religion scholar, Nepalogist, environmentalist; hangs out with Jains

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

On June 2, 2001, I was asleep in Balkot, Nepal (where I'd been living since January). Around sunrise, my host mother woke me, banging on my bedroom door.

There was a phone call for me.

It was my program, calling with news: King Birendra had been killed.

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

New piece in The Conversation:

https://t.co/BuaYXgcr8D

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: TENDERNESS

I love this one. Feel free to add poems.

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

One of my favorite genres of funny is “dancing-videos recut to a different song”

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Between annual review, progress toward tenure review, P&T review, and post tenure review, you’ll spend 20% of your career reviewing why your colleagues aren’t getting more research done - while at the same time not getting your own research done as determined by peer review.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

"women aren't learning to cook their grandmothers' family recipes" sir my grandmother knew 9 different ways to serve cold shrimp in unflavoured jello, her family recipes should be sealed away in the undersea lightning cage they used to contain the Titans in Disney's Hercules

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

@erikwdavis Happy birthday to Leah. May her memory long remain a blessing. 💕

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

Was worried my cat had a tumor, but turned out it was just a disgusting old dog kibble he’d gotten inexplicably matted into his belly fur.

[Dr Eleanor Janega @GoingMedieval]

"I hope this email finds you well".
How the email finds me:

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

Editing and feedback are so important….

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

This is SUCH a fun summary + reaction thread 😂

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.

I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.

HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.

but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

[Jeff Yang 🫶 FOLLOW ME @ORIGINALSPIN ON THREADS/IG @originalspin]

Time to add a new stripe to the flag

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

This photo speaks deeply to my soul

[@chimeracoder.bsky.social 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder]

the four genders

[James L. Sutter (THE GHOST OF US out now!) @jameslsutter]

*gestures to my unmown yard*

"I'm choosing to let my yard grow wild, to help the pollinators."

*waves at a stack of dirty dishes*

"This, too, is for the pollinators."

*trips over a pile of dirty laundry"

"Pollinators."

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

@ShabanaMir1 I’d get one of those barrel planters, put flowers/herbs in it in potting soil, and if the planter doesn’t cover the whole patch, add some rocks or smal pots around the base

[Anne Mocko @theMockOwl]

I have once again purchased a notebook that is far, far too beautiful to use.

I regret nothing.